Northrop Fryes Fiction and Miscellaneous Writings (Collected Works of Northrop Frye)
Contributors: Robert D. Denham (Editor); Michael Dolzani (Editor)
Edition: Volume 25 edition
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: December 8, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9780802093028
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; General; 1912-1991; Frye, Northrop,
Description: "The thirteenth and final volume of previously unpublished writings by Northrop Frye gathers together autobiographical reflections, short stories, an unfinished novel, and commentary on a wide range of topics from Canadian culture to religion. Drawn from holdings in the Frye archives - holograph notebooks, typed notes, and typescripts - these writings have been largely inaccessible to Frye scholars until now." "Some of the contents of this volume, Frye's early fiction efforts, for example, will come as a surprise to those primarily acquainted with his published criticism. All of his fables and dialogues are included here, as are a half-dozen sets of notes in which he speculates on fictional forms that he dreams of one day writing. These and the other pieces in this miscellany offer further evidence of Frye's fertile mind, quick wit, expansive imagination, and verbal power. Frye always claimed that the process of writing for him was a search for proper formulas through which to communicate. The material in this volume, which seldom fails to instruct and delight, discloses the process of that search."--Jacket.